Mangifera indica L.

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Family : Anacardiaceae

Synonym : Mangifera austroyunnanensis Hu.

Common Names : Maav, Mango tree, Cuckoo’s joy

Flowering Period : January – May

Distribution : Indo-Malaysia

Habitat : Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests and also widely cultivated

Uses : Fruits edible, young leaves edible, essential oil yielding, timber yielding. The leaves are astringent and odontalgic. An infusion is drunk to reduce blood pressure and as a treatment for conditions such as angina, asthma

Key Characters :

Mango trees are evergreen trees with bark dark grey. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered at the tips of branchlets, linear-oblong, margin entire. Flowers polygamous, yellowish-green, in terminal panicles. Calyx 4-5, ovate, imbricate. Petals 4-5, oblong. Stamens 4-5. Ovary sessile, superior, ovule pendulous. Fruit a drupe, yellowish-red, mesocarp fleshy, endocarp fibrous.